Test: SPAM block notice rec'd for Gmail reply

Rick rick.buford at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 06:52:58 CST 2005


Jack wrote:
> Also, since you bring up the subject. I've been having
> issues
> with my mail server (self-inflicted). I'm looking to
> boost
> the spam destruction capabilities of my mail server.
> Seeing
> as how I recently discovered I'm getting slammed with
> 5000+
> emails a day, 95% of which are thrown away at SMTP
> time. My server and client combination currently
> blocks about 98% of the spam. I'd like to bump that
> number up to 99.999% (hey it's a journey not a
> destination). I'm looking at greylisting, and also I
> added sa-exim to my system, but screwed up
> placement/context of the configuration lines and
> created a loop. So I've had to sdsiable my new feature
> which was working quite well, by blocking 100% of the
> spam and let through all except 1 of the emails that
> should have gone through. The one caused a loop in the
> system. So my question is does anyone use greylisting
> with debian and exim? I've found one sample
> configuration which I'm studying. But it's a bit
> overkill for my needs.

I don't know exim very well, and instead have always preferred postfix. 
There is very useful greylisting+postfix information at 
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/

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